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Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

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Module Title
Module Code (ITS)
Faculty School
Module Co-ordinatorSemester 1: Paula Murphy
Semester 2: Paula Murphy
Autumn: Paula Murphy
Module TeachersPaula Murphy
Gearoid O'Flaherty
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
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Description

This module will equip students with a knowledge of the development of literary modernism in the context of the broader philosophical and artistic modernist movement. A selection of modernist prose, poetry, drama and film will be analysed in detail to uncover common concerns and strategies.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the socio-historical and artistic factors that created the environment for modernism to emerge
2. Become familiar with the artistic philosophies of modernist writers
3. Identify the literary strategies that characterise modernist writing
4. Describe the relationship between modernist writers and their national, social and cultural contexts
5. Have an awareness of how the end of modernism becomes the beginning of postmodernism



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture24No Description
Assignment Completion12No Description
Assessment Feedback1No Description
Independent Study88No Description
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)

James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)

The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence

Wallace Stevens, Harmonium (1923)

Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928)

Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times (1936)

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment% Examination Weight%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Assignmentn/a100%n/a
Indicative Reading List

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